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attack
English
- 🔊 a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase
- 🔊 an offensive move in a sport or game“they won the game with a 10-hit attack in the 9th inning”
- 🔊 the act of attacking“attacks on women increased last year”
- 🔊 (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)“the attack began at dawn”
- 🔊 strong criticism“he published an unexpected attack on my work”
- 🔊 the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)“the film was sensitive to attack by acids”
- 🔊 a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition“an attack of diarrhea”
- 🔊 ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation“his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons”
- 🔊 intense adverse criticism“Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party”
- 🔊 begin to injure“The cancer cells are attacking his liver”
- 🔊 set to work upon“I attacked the problem as soon as I got out of bed”
- 🔊 attack in speech or writing“The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker”
- 🔊 take the initiative and go on the offensive“The Serbs attacked the village at night”
- 🔊 launch an attack or assault on“Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II”
- 🔊 attack someone physically or emotionally“The mugger assaulted the woman”
Spanish
- 🔊 embate attack
- 🔊 embestidura attack
- 🔊 episodio attack
- 🔊 abacorar to attack
- 🔊 opugnar to attack
- 🔊 repente attack, upsurge
- 🔊 ataque attack, offensive
- 🔊 arremeter to attack, to charge
- 🔊 atacar to attack, to come at
- 🔊 asaetear to attack, pierce, kill with arrows
- 🔊 embestir to attack, especially to ram (up against)